met (according to his instructions) by a crowd dressed in raincoats, boots, and carrying umbrellas. Seven men had been chosen to monitor his success. Hatfield agreed to their terms and set out for King-Solomon's-Dome, the highest point in the Klondike. Hatfield didn't know that he was not only working against nature, but also the Moosehide Indians. Chief-Isaac told one newspaper that he had four medicine men working to hold off the rain.
Six weeks later, after receiving less than two inches of rain, the miners called a meeting. Hatfield didn't appear at it, so the miners cancelled their contract with him. As Hatfield was returning to Dawson City on July 23, he
